My Anger Talk for Youth Group

With all that was going on, and the feelings that I have been processing through, I felt God asking me to work this one up. Part of this comes from a conversation at Celebrate Recovery (no details, just that we were talking about making amends and forgiveness, a couple of the chapters cover these) and [...]

While I have been away from Facebook

An interesting thing has taken place while away from Facebook, I have been reading. Not just the blogs, although since my netbook has been underperforming, I have been reading books. I finished Youth Ministry 3.0 and am over halfway through The Year of Living Like Jesus. Wow, and I have rested! So I haven’t fallen [...]

Why I am Leaving Facebook for Now

I may do a more detailed post later, but for now this will have to suffice. I am also planning a detailed letter that outlines my decisions that lead me to leave Gaylord Community Church. That will be circulated to a few that I think need to know why, and if more want to know [...]

Change is Happening…and a Rest is Needed

The first major change in a long time has finally happened, the old house sold. Mary and I signed the papers on Friday (8/6/10) declaring the house is no longer ours. We now just own one house, the one in Boyne Falls. I praise God for that.  With that bit of news, there are some [...]

Fire in Gaylord

More links to the story: From TVC Record-Eagle:  Here,  here, and here. From the Gaylord Herald-Times Update 2: Here’s a story about the aftermath from TV 9&10 news. UPDATE 1: Video of the first minute of when I was on the scene. The structure is fully involved. I do have some commentary (really explaining to my [...]

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Wish we could trade him

Here’s a link to a fan page for the Steelers. There is great frustration in Steeler nation about Big Ben. They would love to trade him because he has given the town a black eye. Stories are coming out about his antics around Pittsburgh now, as well. The article does say he has his defenders, [...]

Mary’s first 5K

Mary and her friend Tishia did there first 5 km race today. Well they walked it. Their goal is to run it next year. They are contemplating another 5 k in the summer. Update: Here are some Videos from Mary and one I took, and Mary’s weight loss blog.

The van is going away

After describing the damages from Karlie’s accident, the insurance company thought that it would be best to send it to their field adjustment center. So a towing company from Mt. Pleasant came up today and put it on the hook. It will now make a trip to Byron Center and sit to be evaluated. More [...]

A new thing revisited

I have been playing with my new Droid the last few days. I have found cool apps and the browser is great! The camera isn’t bad either.

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